HHS whistleblower complaint alleges botched federal response to coronavirus
The Daily 202's Big Idea
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🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by DXC technology. |
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| 0:06.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily |
| 0:14.1 | 2002 for Friday, February 28. In today's news, a surging Bernie Sanders shows few signs |
| 0:21.0 | of making nice with Democrats. The U.S. is poised to sign a peace deal with the Taliban. |
| 0:28.2 | And Arctic drilling operators can't accurately pinpoint polar bear dens, which means they can't |
| 0:34.4 | pinpoint Polar Bear Dens, which means they can't avoid destroying them. |
| 0:37.3 | But first, the big idea. |
| 0:41.8 | Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than |
| 0:45.2 | a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan China, the epicenter of the |
| 0:51.2 | coronavirus outbreak without proper training for infection |
| 0:56.0 | control or appropriate protective gear. That is according to a whistleblower complaint from a senior HHS official based in Washington who |
| 1:07.2 | oversees workers at the administration for children and families, a unit within HHS. The workers did not show symptoms of infection and were not |
| 1:16.0 | tested for the virus, according to lawyers for the whistleblower. The whistleblower is seeking |
| 1:21.2 | federal protection, |
| 1:22.5 | alleging she was unfairly and improperly reassigned |
| 1:25.8 | after raising concerns about the safety of her workers |
| 1:29.3 | to HHS officials, including those within the Office of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. |
| 1:35.9 | She was told on February 19th that if she does not accept a new position in 15 days, which is |
| 1:41.5 | March 5th, she would be terminated. |
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